Imperial Dis-ease: Trump's Border Wall, Obama's Sea Wall, and Settler Colonial Failure

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/aq.2022.0051
Judy Rohrer
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Abstract:Developing a fuller understanding of US imperialism requires engagement with settler colonial and Indigenous studies. I expand Amy Kaplan's analysis of US empire as "riddled with instability, ambiguity and disorder" to consider how settler colonialism is fortified via walls. Walls stake settler claims and scale from individual property (home) to national borders (homeland). Examining Donald Trump's US-Mexico border wall and a sea wall in front of beachfront property Barack Obama has purchased in Hawai'i reveals the inherent instability and impermanence of settler colonialism, and thus this particular form of imperialism. That instability manifests in three ways: (1) settler colonial anxious, repetitive insistence on its dominion, its claims, especially via the law and physical intervention; (2) the multiple ways human and other-than-human actors resist the walls, refuse capture/containment, call out the fiction/myth of the border and sea wall's power to divide; and (3) the way "once and future ghosts" haunt settler claims, unsettle territorial and temporal assertions of possession/domination/belonging. Based on this finding and analysis drawn from Indigenous and settler colonial studies, I argue that settler colonialism, and thus US imperialism, ultimately fails because of its inherent unsustainability and the myriad of ways it is resisted. What succeeds instead is Indigenous resilience and radical resurgence.
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帝国的不安:特朗普的边境墙、奥巴马的海堤和定居者的殖民失败
摘要:要更全面地理解美帝国主义,就需要参与定居者殖民和土著研究。我扩展了艾米·卡普兰(Amy Kaplan)对美国帝国“充满不稳定、模糊和混乱”的分析,以考虑定居者殖民主义是如何通过围墙加强的。从个人财产(家园)到国家边界(家园),围墙代表着定居者的主张和规模。检查唐纳德·特朗普的美墨边境墙和巴拉克·奥巴马在夏威夷购买的海滨房产前的海堤,可以发现定居者殖民主义固有的不稳定和短暂性,从而揭示这种特殊形式的帝国主义。这种不稳定表现在三个方面:(1)定居者殖民焦虑,反复坚持其统治权和主张,特别是通过法律和实际干预;(2) 人类和非人类行动者抵抗海堤、拒绝捕获/遏制、唤起边界和海堤分裂力量的虚构/神话的多种方式;以及(3)“曾经和未来的幽灵”困扰着定居者的主张,扰乱了对占有/统治/归属的领土和时间主张。基于这一发现和从土著和定居者殖民研究中得出的分析,我认为定居者殖民主义,以及美帝国主义,最终失败是因为其固有的不可持续性和无数种抵制方式。相反,成功的是土著人的复原力和激进的复兴。
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期刊介绍: American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.
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